Click on "Download Stephen Timms' Statement" to read the text which is in pdf format ( you will need to have Adobe Reader to do so).

Yesterday representatives of the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) attended a workshop, in Birmingham, to hear the GRO current plans and to listen to three companies who have been short-listed to deliver elements of the modernised system, referred to above.

The FFHS will release a fuller report once the minutes of the meeting have been endorsed as accurate.